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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I add an announcement?</h1></div>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to the Announcements tool.</h2>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Announcements</strong> tool from the Tool Menu of your site. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click Add.</h2>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Title your announcement and add content.</h2>
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    <p>Give your announcement a title in the <strong>Announcement title</strong> field, and then enter the content of the announcement into the <a href="content.hlp?docId=whatistherichtexteditor">Rich Text Editor</a>. Use the formatting options in the editor to modify the font size or color, add images or links, or embed other content.  </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Highlight the announcement.</h2>
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    <p>If you would like this message to be highlighted in the list, select the check box to <strong>Highlight this announcement.</strong></p>
<p>Highlighted items appear in bold with a star next to the title, as shown below:</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Determine who can view the announcement.</h2>
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    <p>By default, all people enrolled in this site can view the announcement.</p>
<p>Making the announcement <strong>publicly viewable</strong> means that you can send a link to the announcement to users outside the course, or even outside your instance of Sakai, and the announcement will be viewable by them.</p>
<p>You may also select to display the announcement <strong>to selected groups.</strong> (Groups must already exist in your site to see this option.) Participants that are not part of the selected groups will then not be able to view the announcement.</p>
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    <p>Or, you may display the announcement <strong>to selected roles.</strong> (Users with the designated roles must be enrolled in the site in order to see them in the list.) </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select when the announcement will be displayed.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Show</strong> to display the announcement immediately when it is posted. You can also choose to <strong>Hide</strong> the announcement (saving as a draft until you are ready to fully post it), or you can <strong>Specify Dates</strong> when the announcement will be available.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select availability dates. (Optional)</h3>
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    <p>Optionally choose <strong>Specify Dates </strong>to display the announcement only during a specific time frame. Activate the box beside <strong>Beginning</strong> and/or <strong>Ending,</strong> and click the calendar icon to insert the properly formatted date and time when the announcement will begin and/or end. Note that you activate a <strong>Beginning</strong> date without activating an <strong>Ending</strong> date, or activate an <strong>Ending</strong> date without activating a <strong>Beginning</strong> date.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Add attachments. (Optional)</h2>
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    <p>Click the<strong> Add Attachments</strong> button.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Browse for the file.</h3>
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    <p>If the file is not already in your Resources in the course, click <strong>Choose File</strong> to locate the file on your computer. Click <strong>Continue</strong> to attach the file.</p>
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    <p>Or, if the file is already available in Resources, click Select from resources and click the <strong>Attach a copy</strong> option associated with the file. Click <strong>Continue</strong> to attach the file.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Notify participants of announcement by email. (Optional)</h2>
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    <p>By default, no email notification is sent. To send email notifications, select one of the following options:</p>
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<strong>High - All group members</strong>, which sends an email to everyone in the course</li>
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<strong>Low - Not received by those who have opted out</strong>, which sends an email to everyone <em>except </em>people who have intentionally changed their settings so that they don't receive low priority messages</li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click Post Announcement.</h2>
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